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Subject: Re: odd multithreaded search behavior--explanation?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 00:38:35 05/26/00

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On May 26, 2000 at 02:49:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>I've been writing a multithreaded program. I'm running on 1 processor but my
>program splits into 4 threads. So far, the threads don't communicate in any way,
>so searches take exactly 4 times as long (not counting some overhead).
>
>But this evening I added a shared hash table,


>and now the threads=4 program is
>only slightly slower (in terms of NPS and nodes/ply) than the threads=1 >program.
>
>Is this some sort of mistake? I tried for almost an hour to prove that >something
>flakey is going on, but it seems to really go 4 times faster

Do you mean it's slower in terms of NPS, but faster in terms of
solution/iteration time?



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